The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman.

By: Arbesman, Samuel [author.].

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Current, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781591844723 (hardback); 159184472X (hardback).Subject(s): Evolution

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DDC classification: 501 Summary: Arbesman offers a new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. He contends that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arbesman offers a new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. He contends that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways.

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The half-life of facts : why everything we know has an expiration date / Samuel Arbesman.

By: Arbesman, Samuel [author.].

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